Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Budgeting, Money and Relationships on May 8th, 2008
I’ve mentioned before that M and I are getting married pretty soon (two and a half weeks!) and one of the things that we’ll be doing that is relevant to this site and to personal finance is joining our bank accounts. We’ve already created a joint ING account that simply shows up via both of […]
Posted in Happiness, Money and Relationships, Outside the box on Apr 17th, 2008
Whenever I come into some money (tax rebate, freelance check, bonus, etc.), I usually save it. Save, save, save—that’s my mentality right now as I shoot for a $10,000 down payment for a place to live.
But recently M and I have come into some money that has a whole different set of circumstances behind it […]
Posted in Investing, Money and Relationships on Apr 9th, 2008
I was reading a post by JD over at Get Rich Slowly yesterday that got me thinking about the way I build my savings. Right now I put in a monthly amount into a general savings pile in my ING account. Any extra money laying around goes into that pile, and I’m hoping that […]
Posted in Budgeting, Money and Relationships on Feb 21st, 2008
On Monday M and I celebrated our three-year anniversary—three years ago to the day we met at a bar and started to get to know each other. In May we’ll be getting married and we’ll start celebrating that anniversary so I wanted to do something special this year (as I try to do every year). […]
Posted in Budgeting, Creativity, Money and Relationships on Feb 19th, 2008
Last week I posted on my schizophrenic experiences with V-Day and in the aftermath I realized I’ve learned some valuable things about that day and gift giving in general. So next time a special day comes around (anniversary, birthday, etc.), don’t forget these time-tested tips:
Money isn’t everything: You’ve heard it a million times before and […]
Posted in Budgeting, Happiness, Money and Relationships on Feb 18th, 2008
M and I have gotten really good at planning our dinners for the week ahead of time and buying groceries on Sunday to have everything ready to make when we get home.
After work we get home, make dinner, clean up the dishes, and sit down to chill out/hang out. The problem is, some nights we […]
Posted in Happiness, Money and Relationships on Feb 14th, 2008
I’ve done them both and this year I’m aiming for something in between as M and I celebrate our third V-day together.
V-Day #1: Is it the good one or the bad one?
It was our first one together and we had sort of decided that we weren’t going to do a big to do for it—I […]
Posted in Finance, Investing, Money and Relationships on Jan 21st, 2008
You hear it everywhere that the thing couples fight about the most is money. Well, in the case of M and I, we don’t really fight about money decisions, although it is hard when you want to do things or buy things that don’t fit into the larger financial plan.
But that’s something we all have […]
Posted in Blogging, Finance, Money and Relationships, Writing on Jan 18th, 2008
This is a notion I picked up in grad school when I was getting my Masters in Writing: For a lot of writers it helps to keep a certain reader in mind as they sit down to write.
Will X like this part? X will think this is funny, right?
It really helps materialize an otherwise ethereal […]
Posted in Money and Relationships on Jan 15th, 2008
When I met my fiancée around three years ago (way before I became financially awake), I was not in the best of financial circumstances. Not that I was a crack addict trying to sell my TV to get my next score or anything, but things just weren’t looking too promising. It’s still amazing to me […]
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